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...physics. The former are Pitman Benjamin Potter, Oscar William Haussermann, Edwin Angell Cottrell, Chester Alden McLain, and George Herbert McCaffrey; the latter, Arman Edward Becker, James Beeb Brinsmade, David Locke Webster. Hale Gifford Knight was appointed Austin Teaching Fellow in Government, while Julius Klein was made an instructor in Latin-American History. Joseph Wright received the position of Superintendent of the Library of the Bureau of Research in Municipal Government, and Gordon Ware became Assistant Secretary for Employment...
...present trouble with Mexico has not yet assumed sufficient proportions to require forces in excess of the regular army and navy. With the whole country decrying war, with Huerta none too anxious for it, and with three Latin-American republics mediating for peace, there is every possibility that it will not assume such proportions. Members of a number of colleges have turned out in demonstrations which are after all but the trappings of loyalty. To be swept by the whirlwind of excitement and eagerness into action, is not necessarily the highest patriotism, if the action is to be so much...
...graduate of the University, whose name has not bee announced, has made an endowment for the establishment of a professorship of Latin-American History and Economics. The purpose of the course will be to familiarize students with the importance of American interests in the Latin-American republics and to give them a knowledge of the history and conditions existing in those countries. The income from this permanent, fund will be devoted to the salary of the professor chosen, and the surplus, if any, will be devoted to the purchase of books, to defraying the expenses of persons invited to speak...
...year ago Professor Altamira went on a very successful mission to the Latin-American republics, and his main interest now is in bringing about a close relation between them and Spain. His lecture tonight, however, will deal with a more literary theme, and will be given in Spanish...
...Barrett states the object of the prizes to be "to do something to develop throughout the United States a wider interest in our political and commercial relations with Latin-America and to foster a more general study of Latin-American history, institutions, political, social and educational conusions, material and industrial resources, and commercial possibilities--especially as they affect the growth of closer ties of international comity and confidence...